Sculling has two senses, a river sense and a sea sense. In its fresh-water acceptance sculling is the propulsion of a boat with a pair of sculls or light oars by one man (see ROWING). Among seafaring men, however, to scull is to drive a boat onward with one oar, worked like a screw over the stern.
Sculling
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 263
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